Ice’ Tea

Most Americans may have a glass of iced tea from time to time during the summer, but so beloved and sacred is “ice’ tea” below the Mason-Dixon Line that Southerners couldn’t survive without the brew on a daily basis twelve months of the year—at brunches, picnics, church suppers, cookouts, and formal dinners; at beach parties, pig pickin’s, football games, and bereavement buffets; and as much at fancy restaurants as at barbecue joints and diners. (Little wonder that the only tea leaves grown